Vocab Day 15

Question 1

alienate

Answer 1

make someone feel isolated or estranged

Question 2

apathy

Answer 2

lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern

Question 3

apropos

Answer 3

with reference to; concerning/very appropriate to a particular situation

Question 4

apt

Answer 4

suitable in the circumstances/ having a tendency to do something/ quick to learn

Question 5

cloak

Answer 5

something serving to hide or disguise something

Question 6

consensus

Answer 6

a general agreement

Question 7

distort

Answer 7

pull or twist out of shape/give an misleading or false account of or impression of

Question 8

divergent

Answer 8

tending to be different or develop in different directions

Question 9

elated

Answer 9

make someone ecstatically happy

Question 10

enchant

Answer 10

fill someone with great delight/ put under a spell

Question 11

entrenched

Answer 11

(of an attitude, habit or belief) firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained

Question 12

exotic

Answer 12

organizing in or characteristic of a distant foreign country/ attractive/ specially produced

Question 13

exploitative

Answer 13

treating others unfairly in order to gain an advantage

Question 14

foreseeable

Answer 14

able to foreseen or predicted

Question 15

forsake

Answer 15

abandon, renounce

Question 16

gratify

Answer 16

give someone pleasure or satisfaction

Question 17

heed

Answer 17

pay attention to/ take notice of

Question 18

judicious

Answer 18

having, showing or done with good judgment

Question 19

lucid

Answer 19

expressed clearly; easy to understand

Question 20

pertinent

Answer 20

relevant to a particular matter, apposite

Question 21

propriety

Answer 21

conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behavior/ the condition of being right

Question 22

scintillating

Answer 22

adj) brilliantly clever or flashy and exciting
The animated movie has been praised for its scintillating dialogue, which is intended more for adults than children.
Word Forms: scintillatingly, scintillate, scintillant, scintillantly, scintillation

Question 23

sensational

Answer 23

causing great public interest and excitement

Question 24

sophisticated

Answer 24

having, revealing or involving a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion or
culture

Question 25

strife

Answer 25

angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues

Question 26

understated

Answer 26

presented or expressed in a subtle and effective way

Question 27

unscrupulous

Answer 27

having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair

Question 28

veracity

Answer 28

n) honesty; truthfulness

The mechanic was known for his veracity, so customers trusted his diagnoses of their car problems.

Word Form: veracious Antonym Form: nonveracity Related Words: verify, verisimilitude

Question 29

virulent

Answer 29

of a disease or poison) extremely severe or harmful in its effects/ bitterly hostile

Question 30

volatile

Answer 30

of a substance) easily evaporated at normal temperatures / liable to change rapidly and
unpredictably, especially for the worse